Friday, May 22, 2009

PL 32/09: Computers everywhere

In the OUC Traffic Study – Students in action – the massive role of computers in student life was evident.

Picture taken from the project report – Learning Center: Description of activities.

Eighty percent with computers

Nearly 80 percent of the time students spent inside the Learning Centre involved the use of computers. The actual distribution between library and own computers – and between individual and group use – is given below

Alone with library computer: 52% of total computer time

Group with own computer: 32% of total

Group with library computer: 10%

Alone with own computer: 6%

This means that

42% of all “inside” computer time is spent in groups

38% is spent with private computers

All computer time = 100% (5799 observations).

Computers everywhere

Computers are widely used outside the computer areas proper (defined by rows of library PCs):

In the computer areas: 93 percent of the activities involve computers

In the group rooms: 79 percent

In the book shelf areas: 35 percent

In the tables/sitting down areas: 20 percent

The flow of students

The time the students spent spent inside the Learning Centre was distributed as follows: